Tom Jones

Over this past summer I was rooting around in a storage room in my basement and came upon my old vinyl record collection. I had thought about selling them since they were just rotting away in the basement for the past 20 years. But when I saw them I thought let’s get them out and see how hard the years of sitting in a damp storage room had been on them.

Much to my surprise they weren’t as bad as I thought. A few of the album covers that didn’t have a high gloss finish had a bit of mold on them but they didn’t appear to be warped or not playable.

So I go them out, clean them with some mild Murphy’s Oil Soap and a very soft rag and voila I had a vinyl record collect of approximately 300 albums at my disposal.

There were a number of albums I was looking for as I was going through the cleaning process. Albums that I recalled spending numerous hours listening to and enjoying I was now anticipating listening to again.

But as I was taking this trip down the vinyl memory lane I came across a number of albums I forgot about until once again seeing the cover.

I thought I’d take a few moments to share my ten favorite vinyl albums that I forgot. These are in no particular order, just ten great albums that had skipped my mind over the past 20 to 30 years. Continue reading →

I got through side one of that album and decided to switch to a Ray Charles record. It was “Love and Peace” and it was a cut out.

A cut out album was an album you would find in the bargain bins at the local record store for a couple of bucks and sometimes as cheap as one dollar. The album cover literally had a piece notched out of it or a small hole punched through it close to the corner.

The cut out marked the album so the retailer couldn’t return it to the distributor for a credit.

I found a lot of great albums in those bargain bins.

I listened to side one of this album and being that it was Ray Charles it was quality stuff but it just wasn’t what I was looking for that night.

At one point I had to go upstairs to make use of the bathroom and I wanted to put my wallet in my bedroom for the night.

Over this past summer I was rooting around in a storage room in my basement and came upon my old vinyl record collection. I had thought about selling them since they were just rotting away in the basement for the past 20 years. But when I saw them I thought let’s get them out and see how hard the years of sitting in a damp storage room had been on them.

Much to my surprise they weren’t as bad as I thought. A few of the album covers that didn’t have a high gloss finish had a bit of mold on them but they didn’t appear to be warped or not playable.

So I go them out, clean them with some mild Murphy’s Oil Soap and a very soft rag and voila I had a vinyl record collect of approximately 300 albums at my disposal.

There were a number of albums I was looking for as I was going through the cleaning process. Albums that I recalled spending numerous hours listening to and enjoying I was now anticipating listening to again.

But as I was taking this trip down the vinyl memory lane I came across a number of albums I forgot about until once again seeing the cover.

I thought I’d take a few moments to share my ten favorite vinyl albums that I forgot. These are in no particular order, just ten great albums that had skipped my mind over the past 20 to 30 years. Continue reading →